The Nigerian stock market recorded more advancers than decliners in widespread bargain-hunting on Tuesday but losses by a handful of highly capitalised stocks pulled the overall...
Chief Mao Ohuabunwa, senator representing Abia North, has hinted that a group of concerned senators under his leadership have concluded arrangement to push for the immediate...
The death of a class 12 student identified as Manish Khari who gave up the ghost after a suspected drug overdose witnessed an attack on Nigerian...
The Pensions Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) has dismissed five deputy directors over alleged employment scam. The sacked deputy directors were Godson Ukpevo, in charge of Civil...
48-year old Henri Paul Johnson who decided to take a nap on a stretcher after working for sixteen hours straight has been accidentally cremated by his...
The Senate on Tuesday refused to go ahead with the process of confirmation of the 27 persons sent to it by President Muhammadu Buhari as INEC...
Nigerian Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, on Tuesday confirmed that Abubakar Shekau, leader of the terrorist group, Boko Haram, is still alive and on the run....
Researchers at the Open AI group (of Elon Musk fame) have made new strides in creating an AI that uses grounded, compositional language the way we...
The Senate is still trying to extricate itself from the Range Rover Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) said to have been purchased for the upper chamber, but...
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s (NNPC’s) former Group Managing Director, Andrew Yakubu, has withdrawn his fundamental human rights enforcement suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...
The people of Kalari village in Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State, has again been attacked by the terrorist Boko Haram group, who abducted 10...
The Nigerian Army Small Arms Championship kicked off at Camp Zairo, Sambisa Forest (NASAC) on Tuesday without the presence of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces...
By Abdulrazaq Magaji… My first major assignment for Newswatch, once Africa’s most cited and best known newsmagazine, was to do preliminary work ahead of the fiftieth...
The possibility of sustaining stable fuel supply chain in Nigeria looks gloomy as the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, has directed the Petroleum Products...
Akintokunbo A Adejumo… I have written many times on a singularity, or perhaps we should call it a genetic aberration or bane of development and progress...
The federal government, though the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, yesterday banned the importation of tomato paste, powder or concentrate, and increased the tariff on...
The rift between governors of Benue and Rivers states, Samuel Ortom and Nyesom Wike respectively continues to widen by the day. The Benue governor has described...
An ongoing probe, ordered by the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has uncovered a massive fraud in the Federal Government Youth Enterprise with Innovation in...
Former governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam and two other persons have been sued before an Abuja Federal High Court over the diversion of N9.79billion meant...
Mrs Taiwo Obasanjo, wife of former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has stated the real reason she filed a suit at an Ikeja High Court, seeking to...
Villages in troubled parts of Borno State are in a seeming dilemma as their communities have been invaded by the terrorist group Boko Haram, who accuse...
Nigeria Governors’ Forum has described as outright mischief the stories in the media that there were illegalities in the disbursement of the Paris Club loan refund....
A court in Moscow yesterday ordered the detention of opposition leader Alexei Navalny for defying orders not to partake at a major opposition protest that he...
Tragady struck in the Delta community of Abraka when a popular hotelier mysteriously set himself ablaze. According to reports, the yet-to-be identified hotelier who runs his...
One of President Donald Trump‘s son in-laws and his most senior advisers Jared Kushner will be questioned over his ties with Russia, White House sources have...
After losing N71 billion last week, Nigerian equities opened this week with a tinge of bargain-hunting as investors sought out undervalued value stocks. All key indices...
The presidency and the Senate, may be heading for another fresh showdown, over the refusal of the latter to approve a $200 million World Bank loan...
Who wrote the letter asking an Adamawa State High Court judge to release the convicted former governor of the state, James Balla Ngilari, from prison? This...
The Transition Monitoring Group has decried what it says is the total lack of gender balance in the nominations of 29 Resident Electoral Commissioners for INEC...
Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said there was no truth in reports that the ongoing reconstruction of the runway of the...
Dr. Frederick Fasehun, Founder of the Yoruba socio-cultural group, Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), has called for the sack of the Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris,...
President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, on Monday, raised the alarm that the Senate is being blackmailed by unnamed persons, whom he said are aggrieved....
Former governor of Adamawa State, Mr Bala Ngilari, who was on March 6, sentenced to five years in prison without an option of fine, was on...
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday launched the rebranded Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps, with a pledge that the security of lives and property in...
The Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Professor Ibrahim Garba, has cleared the air on whether or not Senator Dino Melaye graduated from the institution....
A day after he was arrested alongside a dozen others for defying a ban on rallies to protest against government corruption, Russia opposition leader, Alexei Navalny...
As the Nigerian Army Small Arms Championship (NASAC) commenced today, indications have emerged as to why President Muhammadu Buhari backed out of a visit to the...
In its bid to stabilize and improve on recent gains made by Naira against the Dollar, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday directed all...
Based on the move by the Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff to investigation how over N4 trillion was lost by the Nigeria Customs Service...
Following the sale of Keystone Bank to Sigma Golf-Riverbank Consortium by the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), the new investors have finally taken possession with...
Barely one week after he called for the imposition of a state of emergency in Benue State, over what he described as the state government’s show...
Scientists in Germany have activated a device that can generate up to 10,000 times the amount of solar radiation that hits the surface of the Earth....
Barely two weeks after the Senate rejected the approval of Ibrahim Magu as substantive chairman for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) the commission’s report...
A shrine reported to have been imported from Umueri community, in Anambra East Local Government Area, has scared away residents of Umuechefu Obiuno quarters, in Igboukwu...
Six high school student who went on a mountain-climbing outing trip in Nasu ski resort in Tochigi prefecture, Japan have been declared dead after they were...
Days after disgraced and impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye was invited for questioning in connection to a corruption scandal that toppled her, special prosecutors in...
Despite the certificate scandal that rocked the presidential candidacy of President Muhammadu Buhari before the 2015 general elections, the Presidency on Sunday declared that he has...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed April 3 for the arraignment of some of the defendants named in the $1.1bn Malabu oil scam. Two...
THE Senate has summoned the Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Professor Ibrahim Garba, to appear before it today and explain his side of the...
The Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff, has revealed its plans to commence investigations into how over N4 trillion was lost due to revenue leakage...
